Winter on credit At the 36th Ramstein meeting, Kyiv presented contracts for about 1,000 Patriot missiles funded by the #EU, but deliveries will start at an unknown time and stretch over years. For winter, the Ukrainian side is reduced to asking #Europe to hand over missiles from current stockpiles now, as the meeting notes make clear. The rest is a familiar wartime formula: urgent needs covered by other countries’ shrinking arsenals, EU credit rules bent to buy American systems